1st Edition

A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion

By Allen Stairs, Christopher Bernard Copyright 2007
    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    368 Pages
    by Routledge

    With an approachable, reader-friendly style, A Thinker's Guide to the Philosophy of Religion provides up-to-date themes in contemporary, analytic philosophy of religion. This provocative collection of readings stimulates clear thinking and careful attention to the reasons for taking up views on religious questions.

    1. Concepts of God  2. The Design Argument  3. The Cosmological Argument  4. The Ontological Argument  5. Miracles  6. Religious Experience  7. Reformed Epistemology  8. Faith and Pragmatic Reasons for Belief  9. The Argument from Evil  10. God and Morality  11. Religious Diversity  12. God and Language  13. Life after Death  Glossary  Bibliography

    Biography

    Allen Stairs is is Professor of Philosophy at University of Maryland, USA.